What I eat in a day *toddler edition!

[jomaIone]

I'm a bit stuck in a rut about what to feed my not particularly fussy 21 month old who is an exceptionally slow eater and more of a grazer. Although will polish off a full evening meal if in the mood/it's her favourite! So indulge me, what are your toddler's eating today?

Mine

Breakfast
Banana
Seeded toast, butter & honey

Lunch
Cheese on toast (this is what she has nearly every day, as it's quick and reliable!)
Cherry tomatoes
Apple
Mini cheddars

Snack will be 1 pancake with peanut butter, maybe a few raisins, and blueberries

Tea will be homemade fish pie, peas and sweetcorn.

Today has been a funny day... Toddler woke up at 10am!!! So everything a bit muddled.

Breakfast at 1045

Rice Krispies and full fat milk
Toast, peanut butter and honey
Banana

Snack 1300

Quavers
Apple Juice

Snack 1600

1/2 pack mini cheddars
Apple

Dinner 1800ish

Pasta Bolognese

Today my ds has eaten.
Porriage
Satsuma
Grapes

Vegtable soup
Bread and butter

Grapes
Jaffa cake

Cheesy pasta
Yoghurt

9oz milk before bed

21month old

Breakfast
2 weetabix with milk

Snack
Fruit pouch

Lunch
Pancake, waffle, grapes

Snack
Custard, Apple

Dinner
Stew and a slice of garlic bread - he ate the garlic bread happily. Eventually I fed him the mouthfuls of stew while he fed himself 2 petite filous - me sneaking my spoonful in every second one of his 🙈🙈

Supper might be oats and strawberry skyr to make sure he is full before bed then a small cup of warm milk with his bedtime story..

I've found that adding ketchup or mayonnaise for him to dip in makes it more likely he will eat the food.. Mind you his Christmas dinner was a bowl of weetabix. He would happily eat breakfast and fruit pouches for every meal of he could.

Breakfast can be any comb of
A Weetabix
Jam and bread
A croissant
Grapes
Apple
Orange
Boiled /poached/scrambled egg
Toast
Cheerios
Cornflakes
Yoghurt

Cold/Lighter meal
Cheese/ham/nut butter/tuna sandwich
French toast
Soup
Egg
Crudités and hummus
Fruit
Yoghurt
Beans on toast

Main meal
Pasta bakes
Fish fingers are her absolute favourite!
Baked potato
Sausage
Lasagne/Spag bol
Cottage pie
Mild curry and rice
Any combo of pasta with protein I can dream up!
Baked tomatoes (large Tom, hollowed our and an egg inside, bake)
Risotto

I find it easiest to meal plan meaning we manage to get the variety in. Also if I do a lasagne for the adult evening meal she'll have a mini one the next day :-)

Everything has veg in it!

My fussy toddler will now only eat potato products: waffles, chips, plain pasta
He eats only select fruit: strawberries, easy peelers, apples, bananas

Typical day
Breakfast: 5-10 multigrain hoops with no milk
Snack 10am: homemade carrot or banana muffin
Lunch: fruit, paratha bread ( the only thing he eats), yoghurt
Snack: cheese crackers
Dinner: waffles, cheese and tomato pinwheel or plain pasta
With fruit
Milk before bed

But he eats a range of other meals at nursery!
Oh and he also hates eggs.
I feel like all I do is cycle the same meals for him even though I always try something new on his plate it doesn’t work!

@Smurf123

Mine is the exact same. Ketchup and mayo will encourage to eat anything! And breakfast for all meals... Definitely.

Tonight she refused to even get in her high chair for her Bolognese. When I sat down for my prawn pasta she happily ate it all... So I reheated her leftovers for myself and she ate half of that as well. Absolute tinker.

Almost 20 mo DS
Small cup of whole milk on wake up
B - eggy bread (1 slice of bread),half a punett of blueberries
Snack - 2 x rice cakes at toddler group
L - homemade mushroom soup then tinned peaches for pudding
Snack - small packet of raisins, 1 x Ella's kitchen veggie toddler straw
D - fish fingers and garlic bread with carrots then petit fabulous

Ate most (has a good apettite). Not enough veg probably, but Monday he had homemade veg lasagne which contained 6 different veg and he had seconds, yesterday was nursery day.

Oh and another small cup of whole milk at bedtime

Today DD woke up later than usual so had blueberry porridge, bottle at nap time, then missed lunch as we had a Dr appointment then she went straight to nursery.

Had veg and hummus for snack and then Bolognese for dinner at nursery. I gave her a yogurt when she got home.

Another bottle at bed time.

Nice ideas on here, thanks!

My 3 year old had for breakfast a raisin & cinnamon bagel with banana and peanut butter, some pineapple & watermelon slices & a yoghurt & orange juice

Lunch was out and we shared sausages, chips & peas

Snacks was chocolate at granny’s, milk & apple

Dinner was salmon fillet, stir fried tomatoes, sugar snap peas, spinach and rice.

Much better day today thanks to the ideas on here!

Breakfast - toast and butter (refused) but then ate most of my crumpet and butter !

Snack at playgroup - gingerbread cake, biscuits, crisps, half a banana 🤭

Lunch - breadsticks, cucumber, pepper, cheese, hummus, blueberries, Bueno hippo biscuit leftover from her stocking! Ate every bit of this very happily!

Dinner - chicken goujons, sweetcorn, carrots, and some kind of carb that j haven't decided yet!

(Not what was offered, what was actually eaten)

B- three smarties found, half a baby bel and some orange juice diluted with water
L- two mouthfuls of cheese and tomato pizza, half a packet of skips, some cut up grapes, half of the tiniest sliver of birthday cake in the world, one cucumber stick, 1 and a half cheese strings
S- approximately 10 smarties off the floor (after finding them where they'd been put 'out of reach' and decanting them on to it), half a winder including some of the paper.
D- absolutely nothing

How have toddlers done today? Mine is 22months old for reference

We had
Milk on wake up at 7am
9am: 1/2 toast at breakfast (was given toast, cereal and banana)
12 lunch. Sweet potato fries (was also given chicken, bread roll, lettuce)
3.30: late snack from nap. Ate cheese (was given cucumbers, cheese and tomatoes- I have never seen him eat cheese!)
Dinner: 5.30pm. 2 alphabites. Juice. Was also provided with a pinwheel, fish fingers

Breakfast- porridge and banana

Lunch- crackers, cheese and some chicken, a few crisps, a yogurt and an apple

Snack- a couple of biscuits

Dinner- small homemade cheese burger, a potato waffle and cherry tomatoes, cucumber and carrot sticks followed by a bit of chocolate from his Christmas stash

17 month old DS.

1.5 weetabix with milk

Few bites of an Hash brown
1/2 Satsuma

Dairylea dunker (2 sticks and all the cheese)
Ham
Cucumber
Cherry toms
Apple
Yoghurt

2 sausages
Mash
Broccli
Mixed veg (peas/sweetcorn/green beans and carrot)

9oz milk before bed

Had an up and down day today. Unusual early start and long nap for DD today.

Breakfast 6.30am 2.5 slices toast and peanut butter

Nap 10 until half 12.

Lunch 1pm bowl of rice Krispies, banana, satsuma

Snack 4ish half pack quavers

Dinner 3 fish fingers, 3 potato smiles and a few spoons of peas and sweetcorn, big bowl of yoghurt.

Then in bed by 6.30!!!

DD has a bit of a cold and doesn't seem to have much appetite.

Breakfast was a bit of toast and some blueberry porridge.

Lunch was reheated spag bol she didn't eat last night, still didn't eat it.

We had our weekly Friday afternoon treat (my fave time of the week) I got a chocolate trifle from the co-op and she had a few spoonfuls.

Baked crusted cod, potatoes, carrots and broccoli for dinner.

2 year old, ate anything when weaning now quite fussy

Breakfast: 1 weetabix
Snack : dairy lea dunker tub. At 3 breadsticks then decided to scoop the cheese out with his fingers
Lunch: pea and ham soup. Wont usually eat breas but I'd left the loaf unsealed next to him and he kept taking chunks out. Yoghurt
Snack- apple, mango, kale and Spinich smoothie and a bag of pom bears
Tea: spaghetti bolognese
Cup of milk before bed

My 2 toddlers have had today

8amFruit bread toasted
Banana

10.30ishSnack -
Orange slices
Cereal bar

12.30Dinner -
Cheese sandwich
Strawberry's
Ice gems (the old school pack lunch snack)

3pmSnack- fruit winder and crisp (half each)

5oclock Tea - pork chops with home made roasties and red currant jelly gravy and veg(they love this)
Yogurt

6.30 Supper -
Glass of milk
Rusk biscuit

God they do actually eat a lot but their both tiny lol

I'm still updating this as it helps me to see what she will and won't eat, and any patterns.

We have had a busy day out today and she hasn't napped but we have had a really lovely day as a family today 🥰

Breakfast - slice of seeded toast with peanut butter and honey, half a banana, half a satsuma

Lunch (at a cafe at a NT place)

• adult portion cheese toastie, cucumber, tomatoes, crisps (ate all except crusts!)
• carton apple juice

Snack

• half pack quavers
• few bits of apple

Dinner

• offered leftover fish pie but wouldn't even try it. Gave her some ketchup but just ate spoons of ketchup and no pie.

So she's having ready brek 🙄

I feel like a terrible parent reading this thread. My three year old eats badly and is very fussy...

Breakfast
Bowl of Special K
Slice of toast and marmite

Mid morning
Bag of chocolate buttons
Bowl of blueberries

Lunch
Tortilla cheese wrap
Pancake with Nutella

Mid afternoon
Bag of Pom Bears
Jaffa Cake (he went on and on and wore me down)

Tea
Bowl of noodles
Yoghurt

Breakfast: croissant that she didn’t eat
Strawberries which she wolfed down

Morning: half of daddy’s cooked breakfast

Lunch: beans on toast- ate 1 spoonful of beans

Afternoon: bottle of milk and half of daddy’s late lunch (yam and egg)
Slice of cake made by my nephew

Dinner: pesto pasta, fish Goujon, broccoli
Apple & 1 party ring biscuit

Today was:

B: 2 Weetabix with full fat milk, plus a kiwi fruit
L: leek and lemon risotto with salmon fillet, plus a banana
D: pasta with ratatouille and shredded slow cooked lamb

We don't really do snacks yet, so he just had water in between meals plus two breastfeeds.

Today DS as eaten:

1.5 weetabix with milk

5 Grapes
2 Strawberries

Cheese and tomato pizza
3 cherry toms
1 Satsuma

Cod Fillet
Mash
Mixed veg (broccoli, carrots, peas, sweetcorn)
Parsley sauce
Yoghurt

6oz of milk before bed

My youngest is my worst for eating, we are under dietitian and paediatrician. He has food allergies and is autistic with sensory issues. Yesterday was considered a good day as he's been poorly recently and eats nothing.
Breakfast - soya milk hot chocolate and 2 packets of prawn cocktail crisps and gummy vitamin
Lunch - McDonald's. He eats a burger, no bun and fries.
Dinner - alpro chocolate milk and 2 packets of prawn cocktail crisps
Snack - licked a mini gf df cupcake and 3 pom bear crisps
He does drink water when ever thirsty.